Friday, February 28, 2014

Will We Have A Chance to Reshuffle the Budget Deck?

As I mentioned yesterday, it appears that the General
Assembly will adjourn without having completed a budget on March 8th.The last time it happened this way was in
2004.

This may give us an opportunity.New budget bills will be introduced in the
special session.They should reconsider
the shoddy treatment given to teachers in the regular session.Teachers and other school board employees
were the only employee group not targeted to receive a salary increase.The introduced budget from McDonnell has no
teacher salary increase, and here is what the House and Senate did: